Ken Block’s 914hp Ford F-150 Hoonitruck AND Hoonigan Racing HQ Tour: Inside Look With Neil Cole!

yellow hoodie left well hello, I'm somewhere in the middle of a snow storm outside of Park City, Salt Lake City is that way Las Vegas is that way my house is thousands of miles away way, but I think I'm in the right place because there is a skidoo hooligan and we are in a place that says no, it is not open to the public, there is no appointment, there is no entry, so this is an exclusive opportunity to see behind the scenes in the Hoonigan

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division and I hope that what happens here is heaven. whose niche knock knock who's there awesome I mean I've dreamed of coming here before yeah it's like a temple to all things traction and speed but seeing it in person is pretty amazing well thanks this isn't it walking through the doors your first time here but a few days ago it was your first time here and you had a very genuine reaction when you walked in so that's the general idea of ​​what we wanted when people walked into this place because to me this is a celebration of what we do with motorsports is everything from amazing

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cars, not just the newest ones but also the old ones, and the celebration of fun and creativity, everything that surrounds what we do with these cars , immediately as someone who grew up skating, stuff like this.

Well, that's the thing when we built this place, we wanted to bring to life a lot of the things that coincide with my life and my career, because we wanted the offices and the places where we meet and work to be very inspiring. creatively, so we have a lot of fun doing the things that we do and we wanted to celebrate that fun obviously in the office that represents it, it's all kinds of modular, it's all kinds of containers, yes, the idea is a rented space in a building and No I had no idea if I would be here for a year or ten years, you know, hoping that the team would grow and expand, that I would have to move or that we would buy our own space and build our own building, but he built everything so that they could be picked up and moved, so all of these are shipping containers, all of these materials are things, a lot of them are used materials, like skateboards that make up the tiles or, you know, bamboo flooring to try to use a more eco-friendly type product. , so yeah, we tried to reuse and recycle as many materials as possible and at the same time take parts of my life and mix them into everything from obviously skateboard tiles because I grew up skateboarding and a lot of my business life was also focused on the skate, even a little more like a mountain and it would feel like something you wouldn't get in most career jobs, but we're located in Park City, Utah, in the middle of the mountains, so I wanted to represent some of that too, but yeah, that's the basic backstory, so you're giving everyone a

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today.

Enjoy it if I need to summon you at any time to verify the facts. Can I just be okay? Fine, thanks. See you Neil, bye. First of all, things that are really impressive and things to be proud of, like all these trophies, including some not only for racing but also for marketing, very, very interesting. I mean, now this means a lot to me because I've spent a lot of time. time in the forests of Sweden in the WRC, this event in particular and I think this was Ken's first time in 2011 with the Fiesta in the WRC, first time with Stubbs.

Colin McRae was one of the first drivers to fully take off on this jump because until then it was just a shield that people just put up and then it became a real competition within the event: who could be the best and most spectacular and, by Of course, Ken Block won the award in 2011. The great thing about that is that part of Colin McRae's DNA and his name being associated with that is that he is also deeply connected to this incredible brand to escort because under the hood is a Millington engine which was originally going to be part of the r4 project which unfortunately colin mcrae was unable to complete before he tragically passed away, so this has some genuine engineering DNA from colin mcrae himself.

In fact, there is a three-way connection that we can triangulate the connections. The x games of course were somewhere where a relationship was formed between Ken and Colin and this is something I know. Ken is very proud of his silver medal at the , drove most of the time. finish on three wheels, but fortunately most of the important corners were to the left, so this wasn't a big mechanical problem, apart from the fact that you are racing on three wheels and still coming out with a silver medal is something that I know Ken is very proud but also proud of the whole don't care attitude, the kind of not being embarrassed when things go wrong, in fact, speaking of don't care, there's an entire wall dedicated to that phrase right here, like this that I don't care. strive to win at any cost without any mechanical sympathy or regard for one's own well-being now, that not only means that if you know you won a victory, you may have some falls, it also means that competition means that you must keep going like rallies They are an extreme off-road adventure, so if you get a puncture or break a piece of steering or suspension arm, quite often you will have to try to fix it during the competition or choose to ride on it until it's right. completely destroyed so let's take a

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around here there's some amazing artwork and that's what I love about this place is that there's a lot of art amongst the mechanical things it's all combined and that really appeals to me personally and to games like these X boxes.

I designed a neat layout for each of the different livers where the Gymkhana liveries are converted. You have all these toys. I'm Ken's Russian doll. You've got these monster cans with Ken on the side. You have all these different shoes that Is this the brilliant type of DC combo skates that you match with the driving shoes? It's one of my favorite breast cancer charities. I love boobies so this is a great little archive but also a record of all the great designers of that amazing unicorn race car and in fact if you

look

at that entry there you can see the real version right here look that in the conference room, as you can see, there is a theme in the conference room and that is to climb Khanna, there are real Gymkhana wheels.

I have some original and genuine works of art. Death Spray. Death Spray. You know, there are some incredible trophies here for the world RAD in all the championships, both Andreas Bakkerud and Ken Block and Hunico and the Hoonigan team. Rallycross Gymkhana Grid ARX GRC, but also some fantastic prizes. For marketing work, also an interesting little fact about Kleine Karna is that this sign was made by hand because to get that photo of that sign on Climbing Karna they couldn't find that real sign so they had to make it by hand and this place it is full. of evidence of creative ideas like this Rob Dyrdek car, which is much more on my scale, which is actually a little too small for me, yeah, and then over my shoulder you have the art from the Gymkhana archives, the 8 part series for Amazon Prime I'm in.

Another interesting fact about Rob Dyrdek is that he was also in Gymkhana 2, very good, very funny - the high octane poster, so Gymkhana 4 with a nice quote from Darth Vader, let's go up and this is the kind of hangout area with mountain theme. The bear in the open space left some sort of office area for Ken's lunch. You don't know if he really sits there very often. Some really nice racing suits look back at the history of rallying in the WRC 2010 2011 2012 and see the evolution of the paint dripping livery. which is also reflected in the cars and want to find over here is a room with some impressive pieces let's see if I can put a lighter in now this really attracts the range of different racing shoes some of which are clearly new some of which have definitely seen some serious action and all the different helmets look at these pretty much, look at that, so the key thing with some of these different helmets is that they obviously have different functions, like that, if you're going to ingest a lot of, you know, methanol. and different types of gases that you can't breathe, you need the gas mask on the front, but for classic rally helmets you need this to be able to talk to the co-driver, but the open face ones are much better and then the classic ones.

Troy Lee's racing style or designs are absolutely gorgeous, but the important thing to remember is that it's not just a meeting space, it's not just creative workspace spaces, it's also functional and career equipment, and this It's the beating heart of it and it's absolutely wild, now there are a lot of cool vehicles here to show you, the first to appear is the RS200, easily my favorite of the bunch, the rally cars, but no, not just the one next to it is the Ken's wife's Bronco and then there's a four-door cannon. I'm and oh there's just a random ski-doo snowmobile and by the way it's skiddoo this is the Ford Focus RS rx from Gymkhana 9 and then it reappeared in Gymkhana 10 driven by Oliver Solberg son of the world rally champion and rallycross Petter Solberg. the one next to Gymkhana 3 this is a fiesta built by OMS C these two cars are the only cars they have built in

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that are five doors an extra nerdy fact is that you can't open the back door of the Concentrate because it seals that you can open the rear door of the Fiesta.

A couple of awesome birds of prey, one on wheels, one on tracks, the new Explorer ST with an awesome can on the back, but let's not ignore the elephant in the room that I am. Personally, I'm very excited to see ladies and gentlemen that it's the new truck getting our little personal introduction to the Hoonah truck. I need to call Ken Block and that's KB, so it's a huge job and very impressive, but tell us a little bit. Why this truck basically? I grew up in a Ford family and my dad had an F-150 that was very similar.

This one almost exactly here could have been out for a year and it was a farm truck and I used it for hauling. My dirt bikes to the track and I was the first vehicle I got burned on and I slid on the gravel and I jumped Nahum off a jump and they picked him up, so you know, I'm a truck guy. I love racing, you know? vehicles that I can compete with, but I really enjoyed driving and being in a truck. Luckily for me, Ford makes some great trucks and we incorporated a lot of great technology from Ford's current truck lineup into this truck, including, you know, aluminum body panels. backup camera, I guess so, it has a backup camera, but also from Ford Performance it's a very special engine, you know, the current Ford Raptor that I drive daily has a twin-turbo V6, so they gave us a very special one, it's Okay, so I'll leave it.

You detail that this is directly from China, it has some scars. I hit some things mainly with the back so you can walk around and as you walk around you will find that it's not in perfect condition, okay, so give the people what they want all the nice details that I'm going to get out of here, okay , first of all, it's big and look how big it is, it's actually wider than me, so under the hood and partially exposed over the hood 3.5 liter twin-turbo V6 making 914 brake horsepower and 700 lb- ft. of torque, but the engine has proper racing heritage.

It's also very similar to the type of engine that's in the Raptors there and what I love about the engine is that this air. The entrance was 3D printed in Germany and it took a hundred hours and it's unique, well maybe it was when it was 3D printed and you got things like the doors completely handmade, you can see how someone has made them. I shaped it so that it sounds like a truck when you close the door and then you look back here, let's take a look at the bed is completely open completely and completely open and this is all modular so if you need to take aside because of course , it's a film vehicle, but they have to repair it and get it going again, they don't have time to put it in and rebuild it, it has to be fixed so that the parts can be removed and down there you can see the central clutch release, so that's something very specific that is for this and also very similar to the world rallycross car, is that when you want to pull the handbrake to lock the rear wheels, the central center clutch is released, so once we're in, there's lots of room for gears, a handbrake and a very, very well designed set of buttons on the front, obviously the screens that would be the reverse screen, so you can see how you can put this in reverse when you go to reverse it. difficult spaces and then, yes, transmissions under here, engine, there, front differential, rear differential, but if you take a look at the back of the box, imagine how hard this thing is to drive, it's huge on those roads in ribbon shapefrom the Chinese countryside, especially with this. huge overhang, not only that but also this and just to explain to us how difficult it was, let's get Ken back so you don't make life easy with a beast like this on those Chinese roads, it really is quite big if you look at the Fiesta there and even the focus is a little bit longer, there's not much overhang beyond the rear wheel, but this is the opposite of that, there's a huge overhang with the deck and not only that, we have the spoiler sticking out.

Beyond that, as you can see here, there is a bit of additional bureaucracy. This is on turn 9, where the wing actually scraped a piece of metal on the top of the barrier and got bent and scraped right there, and then the damage here is actually. Since I hit the

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s at the entrance to the neighborhood, it's one hell of a trunk, Ken, I mean, it's such a pleasure to see this in person and it's so much bigger and cooler than I ever imagined, and so is the place, thank you. Well thanks for giving everyone a

tour

, I hope so.

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